Anness: Harrodsburg Tanker

Elsworth "Elzie" Anness

Sergeant

(Harrodsburg Tankers, WW-II) 1921–1943 BIRTH: 4 AUG 1921 • Harrodsburg, Mercer, Kentucky, United States DEATH: 27 JAN 1943 • Died at Camp Tanagawa, Osaka, Japan; buried at Spring Hill Cemetery Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, USA; MEMORIAL ID, 66163694 Education:4 years of high school. Occupation: Actors and actresses (He was not married.)

Elzie E. Anness Sergeant Elzie E. Anness, Headquarters Company, 192nd Light Tank Battalion joined the Harrodsburg National Guard unit sometime before it was activated in November 1940. He was taken prisoner on 9 April 1942. It is not known whether he was on the Death March. He was held at Camp O'Donnell, Cabanatuan and Las Pinas. He was sent to Japan on the Hell Ship Nagato Maru and he was sent to Tanagawa Camp, Osaka, Japan and worked building a dry dock. He died on 27 January 1943 at Camp Tanagawa, Osaka, Japan of dysentery.”

Sgt Elzie E. Anness BIRTH, 4 Aug 1921, Stringtown, Mercer County, Kentucky, USA DEATH, 27 Jan 1943 (aged 21), Japan BURIAL, Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, USA MEMORIAL ID, 66163694 Sgt Elzie E. Anness was a Kentucky National Guardsman called to federal service as a member of D Company, 192nd Tank Battalion. He was reassigned to HQ Company at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Anness fought on Bataan during the Japanese conquest of the Philippine Islands and took part in the Bataan Death March. He was held as a Prisoner of War at Camp O'Donnell and Cabanatuan and sent to Japan on a "Hell Ship". He became ill with dysentery while a POW at Tanagawa POW Camp in Japan where he died. Elzie Anness's final resting place is unknown, so his family had a memorial headstone placed at Spring Hill Cemetery in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.”